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1; H. BELL.

Stovepipe Connection.

Patented March 12,1861.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFTCE.

JAMES H. BELL. OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOVEPIPE CONNECTION.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,652, dated March 12, 1861,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. BELL, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Stovepipe Connection, and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figures 1 and 2, are side elevations, Fig. 3, a longitudinal section, and Fig. t, a transverse section of it.

My invention consists of a cylindrical or other proper shaped box or chamber and two adjustable pipe joints applied together in manner and so as to operate substantially as hereinafter specified.

In the drawings, A, exhibits the said box, which is closed at its two ends but has elongated openings (4, 6, made in its opposite sides. Each opening has a short pipe or pipe joint, B, C, applied to it by means of a slider, c, or c, which is arranged on the side of the box, and between two parallel guides, (Z, (Z, and so as to enable such slider to be moved lon itudinally in the box, and with respect to the opening a, Z), to which such slider may appertain. Each pipe joint opens through its slider and into the interior of the box, A. By such an application of the two pipe oints to the box, either of such joints becomes adjustable with reference to either end of the box.

The object of my invention is to enable a stove pipe to be readily adapted to a pipe receiving opening made in a chimney or the front of a fireplace. Or it may be applied to join or connect two pipes when one may be situated at a higher level than the other, the end of one pipe being inserted in one of the joints, B, C, while the extr mity of the other pipe is fixed in the other joint.

I am aware that for connecting a stovepipe, with a chimney, a perforated plate and an adjustable oint have been employed in a fire place. Therefore, I do not claim such. It cannot be employed to connect two pipes when one leads toward and the other into a flue or chimney and such pipes arranged at different heights or levels. My invention is susceptible of such a use, and also is capable of bein used to connect a stoye with the pipe opening of a fire-place.

I claim The above specified improved stove-pipe JAMES H. BELL.

Witnesses R. E. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

